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Title: Temperature and salinity data collected using XBT and CTD instruments from ship Urania in the Mediterranean Sea, March 2008 - September 2009 (NODC Accession 0118499).
Abstract: The XBT and CTD data were part of a comparison experiment analyzing XBT biases.
Date received: 20130506
Start date: 20080330
End date: 20090902
Seanames: Alboran Sea, Ionian Sea, Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin, Mediterranean Sea - Western Basin, Tyrrhenian Sea
West boundary: -4.7192
East boundary: 21.0982
North boundary: 39.5002
South boundary: 35.5828
Observation types: physical, profile
Instrument types: bathythermograph - XBT, CTD
Datatypes: DEPTH - OBSERVATION, SALINITY, SOUND VELOCITY, WATER TEMPERATURE
Submitter: Reseghetti, Franco
Submitting institution: National Agencies for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment
Collecting institutions: National Agencies for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment
Contributing projects:
Platforms: URANIA (48UR)
Number of observations: 62
Supplementary information: The data were analyzed in a paper titled "A New Method to Estimate the Systematical Biases of Expendable Bathythermograph" in the Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology by Cheng et al (2011).
Availability date:
Metadata version: 3
Keydate: 2014-05-13 20:01:11+00
Editdate: 2014-05-19 13:53:39+00